Course overview

About the course

Project Planning & Control supports the publication of the APM's guide, ‘Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk.’ It provides guidance and best practice for project planning and control and is applicable across all industries and sectors.

A successful Practitioner candidate will have demonstrated that they have achieved sufficient understanding of the theory and application of the tools and techniques to allow them to work successfully in a Project Support team environment.

What's covered?

This course covers the following modules:

Planning & Scheduling

Breakdown Structures

Dependency Management

Handover and Closure

Scheduling

Types of Schedules

Building the Schedule

Critical Path Analysis

Time Analysis

Duration Estimates

Resources

Communicating the Schedule

Project Baselines and Baselining Principles

Performance Reporting

Variance Analysis

Resource Monitoring

Earned Value Analysis (EVA)

Cost Control

Short-term Planning

Change Control

Forensic Analysis

Record Keeping

Earned Value Management

Risk Management

Duration

This is a five day classroom course that includes the PPC Foundation and Practitioner exam on the last day.

Target audience

This course would benefit:

Planning Managers & Engineers

Project Control Managers & Engineers

Cost Engineers

Project Managers

Pre-requisites

The are no formal pre-requisites. It is recommended that a Practitioner candidate has a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a planning and monitoring role. In addition, you must have passed the PPC Foundation exam prior to undertaking the Practitioner examination.

Learning objectives

By attending this course, you will learn…

The approaches and techniques used to plan and close a project

The selection and use of appropriate scheduling techniques

The practices used for rigorous monitoring to enable proactive control of the project

The basis for good record keeping, which also facilitates the virtuous feedback and learning cycle

The approaches and key products used to gain a clear definition of a project

The scheduling techniques and appropriate presentation of the outputs

The management of risk in the planning, execution and evaluation of a project

The practices and data used for rigorous monitoring to enable proactive control of the project

What's included?

This is an intensive five-day course that includes the following:

All accompanying course material

The Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control – The Practical Project Management of Time, Cost and Risk manual

The cost of the PPC Foundation and Practitioner examination (taken within the duration of the course)

Pre-course

There is mandatory pre-course work that must be under taken prior to attending this course. In addition, whilst attending the course there will also be some exam preparation evening work.

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